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Stroudsburg HS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Stroudsburg HS
Stroudsburg HS, a well-populated high school in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, run under Stroudsburg Area SD, hosts 1,196 students, covering grades 10 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Stroudsburg HS sits 62% larger than that benchmark.
Stroudsburg Area SD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,361 students; Stroudsburg HS is among them.
In terms of who attends, Stroudsburg HS logs that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 21% Black, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Stroudsburg HS lists 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stroudsburg HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.8%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,565, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Monroe County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,752 students), Stroudsburg HS is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: B F Morey El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Stroudsburg HS comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stroudsburg HS has declined 7%, going from 1,280 students in 2018 to 1,196 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 18% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Monroe County at a glance
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